Government Security Compliance Risk Manager, AWS Compliance & Security Assurance

AWS Security Assurance Team

At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Security is our highest priority. The AWS Security Assurance team is responsible for diving deep into industry requirements, establishing and maintaining regulatory and authority documentation for security requirements and establish long-term strategies to meet customer and regulatory security assurance needs and requirements. At AWS' scale, we hire experienced builders to design and operate scalable mechanisms to provide the highest level of assurance to our most regulatory conscious customers. We are looking for a highly motivated industry expert to join our Government Assurance Team. As part of the team, you will own the strategic direction and operation and key part of our US Government Compliance Program (e.g. FedRAMP, DoD). Our team solves complex compliance challenges, dives deep into compliance requirements for both AWS and our customers, improves processes, and drives greater efficiency in meeting expectations. This role facilitates our ability to grow and scale our internal compliance processes and mechanisms to meet the compliance and regulatory expectations in the US Public Sector Market. You should be an industry professional who has the ability to understand IT and compliance processes, evaluate opportunities for improvement, and to be able to drive innovative campaigns across organizations and teams.

Key job responsibilities :

• Evaluating the effectiveness and efficiency of compliance documentation program activities and implement improvements to improve delivery at scale.
• Leading and managing projects and campaigns with excellent project management skills.
• Creating operational mechanisms to address recurring escalation patterns and persistent challenges communicating to leadership the status and key deliverables of team initiatives, seek diverse opinions and lead improvement efforts.
• Leading Escalations. Fielding and addressing requests for team support in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
• Diving deep into the operations of AWS compliance programs to develop domain and technical understanding of regulatory and customer expectations to drive process improvement initiatives.
• Bridging communication with both technical engineering and business teams to successfully capture and document control activities.
• Operating a quality rhythm of the business for managing compliance expectations.
• Using high judgment to distill diverse inputs from large customer segments and stakeholders to set a vision and design the right long-term solutions.
• Leading a large, challenging initiative.

About the team :

Diverse ExperiencesAmazon Security values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn't followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don't let it stop you from applying.

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